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Gint-A-Cuffs Practice: 2010 Topps Series 2 Warm Up - Part 8

There are only eight packs left in the box (2 of each player).  The hit has been found...is there anything else good left?  Only one way to find out.

And once again, the scoring summary:

Base cards:
Cincinnati Reds: +10
Pittsburgh Pirate: +5
New York Yankee: -10
Boston Red Sox: -5
Awesome photo: +1 through +5 points, depending on how much I like it.

Inserts:
Gold parallel: +10
Black parallel: +25
Platinum parallel: +50
Printing Plate: +30
Cards Your Mother Threw Out: +2
Cards Your Mother Threw Out Original Back: +4
Topps Legends Vintage Collection: +2
History of World Series: +2
Turkey Red: +2
Legendary Lineage: +2
Peak Performers: +2
Red Hot Rookies: +4
Topps 2020: +4
Sketch Card, Hall of Fame Buyback, or any of the other crazy hard pulls: +100
Million Card Giveaway: +5
Peak Performance Relic: +10
Peak Performance Auto: +20
Manufactured Hat relic: +20
All other relics/autos: +100
Topps Attax cards: +1
Cincinnati Reds: x10
Pittsburgh Pirates: x5
New York Yankee: /10
Boston Red Sox: /5


Pack 02 - Cobb:
336.  C.J. Wilson
351.  Koji Uehara
462.  Alcides Escobar
482.  Mike McCoy
560.  Ryan Rowland-Smith
615.  Justin Verlander
653.  Nolan Reimold
LL-55.  Rickey Henderson & B.J. Upton (+2)
CMT116.  Rick Procello (+2, seriously though, if your mom threw out your 2009 Topps you probably shouldn't be spending your money on 2010 Topps.)
Topps Attax:  Matt Kemp (+1)
Cobb's Pack Score:  +5 
That's the lowest (expected) score a pack can have...Blah.

Pack 02 - Pedroia:
404.  Mariano Rivera (-10, another Yankee)
405.  Dustin McGowan
446.  Gavin Floyd
475.  Johnny Damon
492.  Brian Wilson
550.  Freddy Garcia
552.  Chris Tillman
PP-66.  Aaron Hill (+2)
598.  Alberto Callaspo (+10, Gold Parallel)

Topps Attax:  Justin Verlander (+1)
Pedroia's Pack Score:  +3 points
Somehow, Pedroia did worse than Cobb despite having a ten point insert card. 

Pack 02 - Ruth:
349.  Felix Pie
456.  Clayton Richard
470.  New York Yankees (-10, lots 'o Yankees on this one)
512.  Scot Shields
536.  Matt Palmer
620.  Geovany Soto
622.  Cleveland Indians
TR88. Eddie Mathews (+2)
HWS22.  Alex Gonzalez  (+2.  I remember watching this game in college.  Lots of Yankee fans, lots of "root against the Yankee fans".  Good times!)

Topps Attax:  Lance Berkman  (+1)
Ruth's Pack Score:  -5
The first three packs from this round have all been rather crappy.

Pack 02 - Mantle
352.  Cameron Maybin
365.  Logan Ondrusek (+10, a Red finally!  The first time Ondrusek was called up to the Reds big league team, he was so bad I referred to him as Ondrusucky.  Luckily, he's been a bit better since that first call up.)

445.  Miguel Olivo
554.  Ramon Hernandez (+10, wow, two Reds in one pack)

562.  Carlos Quentin
589.  Edinson Volquez (+10, well, this pack makes up for the total lack of Reds in the box!)

624.  Carlos Beltran
CMT99.  Cal Ripken (+2)
VLC12.  Jackie Robinson (+2)
Topps Attax:  Josh Johnson (+1)
Mantle's Pack Score:  +35
By using the power of three different Reds cards, Mantle crushes the competition this round...and opens up a huge lead over second place Pedroia heading into the final pack for each player!

Leaderboard (after 4 packs - # of packs won in parenthesis):

Mantle: +120.38 (2 wins)
Pedroia: +76.2 (2 wins)
Ruth: +56.2  (1 win)
Cobb: +50.48  (3 wins)

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